Re: Back to the Ethernet adapter thread!

[wsmith@NOSPAM.ctron.com (Will Smith)]

On Thu, 19 Mar 1998 02:20:18 GMT, themaples@worldnet.att.net (Bruce
Maples) wrote:

|>-- Deciding which protocols to use? (I would assume AppleTalk, but
|>then you've got to get AppleTalk running on the PC side as well.)

i nominate IP and IPX support, with more attention given to IP....
<g>

|>-- Working out speed issues?

i think our biggest enemy here is the system's bus...  we'd need a
good buffer on the card.

|>I'm showing that I've never written a network driver, I'm sure, but it
|>seems to me that the issue is larger than just finding edge
|>connectors.

join the club-- neither have i.  once we manage a physical device with
known specs, i'm sure we could find SOMEBODY, but all this effort will
still cost something....  TANSTAAFL...  <shrug>

|>Just a thought...

good ones at that...  :)

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William Smith
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